The Basin Hairdressing is the home salon of Louise Dunlop at 5 Montebello Avenue in Stoke, Nelson, offering a relaxed, personalised one-on-one service for women, men and children. Louise brings more than 20 years of experience, and clients speak of her eye for detail, natural-looking colour and a habit of truly listening before she cuts.
A good salon visit starts well before the scissors come out: a stylist who asks about your hair history, past colours and how you actually wear your hair day to day is one worth keeping. Colour especially rewards loyalty, as the same hands remembering which tones suited you last time is what keeps highlights looking natural rather than stripy. With a one-person salon the diary tends to fill around regulars, so booking ahead is worth the effort.
That kind of long-standing relationship is exactly what reviewers describe at The Basin, a quiet home salon in Stoke between Richmond and Nelson city.